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Is That AI? Or Does It Just Suck? AI is becoming synonymous with things that are unbelievable, generic, or just a little bit off
AI is now associated with things that are a little bit unbelievable, a little bit generic, or just sort of off.
Massive companies are spending tens of billions of dollars to build, train, and deploy new AI models with which they hope to automate a wide range of tasks currently relegated to thinking humans. Maybe your first experience with AI is an encounter with a chatbot that uncorks decades of sci-fi anticipation and fear around machine intelligence, prompting runaway sequences of thought — maybe optimistic, maybe apocalyptic — about an utterly changed world. Nor am I talking about a scenario like the ones predicted with the rise of deepfakes and the subsequent availability of AI-powered image and video generators, in which the general public is defenseless against synthetic media, never sure if what everyone’s seeing is real or fake, manipulable by machines that can manufacture new realities, destroying the original in the process.
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